Ousted Eastside Catholic vice principal Mark Zmuda still wants his job back, but a boisterous Seattle forum Friday night delivered an additional message: Whatever happens, the school is not going back. Some 250 supporters of “Mr. Z” were welcomed to the parish hall St. Joseph Church to discuss the Catholic Church’s attitude toward gays and […]
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The Arizona congresswoman shot by an assassin at a 2011 Tucson town meeting came to a packed Olympia hearing on Tuesday, appealing to Washington legislators and voters to close the “gun show loophole” on firearms purchases. “The last few years have been hard: Stopping gun violence takes courage to do what’s right and new […]
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The continuing, month-long controversy swirling around the ouster of a newly married gay vice principal of Eastside Catholic High School has claimed a major casualty. Sister Mary Tracy has submitted her resignation as president and head of school at Eastside Catholic, effective immediately. “Sr. Mary came to this decision after much prayer and reflection. For […]
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Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain would be walking in the footsteps of Pope Francis were he to drive out to Eastside Catholic High School in Sammamish and open a dialogue with students protesting the ouster of its vice principal. As well, he would do the Church and himself a favor by engaging in what Pope […]
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Supporters of ousted Eastside Catholic School vice principal Mark Zmuda took their case to Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain on Wednesday, submitting 21,000 signatures on a petition seeking a dialogue and calling for reinstatement of “Mr. Z.” “We’ve just received the petitions. and we’ll take that under advisement,” said Greg Magnoni, a spokesman for the […]
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Students from Eastside Catholic High School and other Catholic secondary schools delivered a message outside the Archdiocese of Seattle on Saturday afternoon: We are not going away, and we are taking our protest to a new level. “We care too much about Mr. Zmuda to let this go,” said Ian Edwards, a senior at Eastside […]
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Recognition is earned, more often by persistence and determination than by making a quick splash. Here is a list of people (and one group) in the Seattle area worthy of watching in 2014: – Paula Rosput Reynolds: She is the board chair of KCTS-TV, reportedly a force to pump new blood and programming into a […]
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The social gospel preachings of Pope Francis are starting to ruffle rich American Catholics, according to Home Depot founder Ken Langone, who is leading an effort to raise $180 million to restore St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. The first Jesuit pope has taken aim at trickle-down economics and warned about creation of a “culture […]
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The dawning of 2014 will send enrollees to America’s gyms vowing to get back in shape, see the arrival of a new CEO vowing to shape up Microsoft, see President Obama try to shape his legacy, and witness Pope Francis trying to reshape the message of the Catholic Church. Here are a few suggestions, some […]
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The biggest political losers of 2013 were those, here and across America, guilty of overconfidence, overreaching or failing to reach out enough. It was a year of upsets and upset people, of reversals of fortune, and self-inflicted wounds. Here is a list of eight people and two groups frustrated by the turn of events of […]
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